Q&A: Do you realize that dinosaurs are in the bible?

Question by suthrndaysi: Do you realize that dinosaurs are in the bible?
This came thousands of years before fossils were found. Also before the word dinosaur existed. I have know this for years now. However a question was asked a few minutes ago & I went searching for a website into link back into as well as giving scriptures.

Yes the following is copied & pasted. From this web site. http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml

The Bible highlights into many the common animals we know today. The list includes lions, wolves, bears, sheep, cattle & dogs along with various kinds of birds, rodents, reptiles, & insects. What is interesting is that this extensive list includes three animals that we no longer recognize. These three are (in the original Hebrew language) tanniyn, b@hemowth (yes, it’s spelled correctly—at least as close as we can get in Roman characters), & livyathan.

Although we alter the spelling of behemoth & Leviathan slightly, we still use those same words in bibles today. However, tanniyn is always translated into another word when we write it in English. Tanniyn occurs 28 times in the Bible & is normally translated “dragon.” It is also translated “serpent,” “sea monster,” “dinosaur,” “great creature,” & “reptile.” Behemoth & Leviathan are relatively specific creatures, perhaps each was a single kind of animal. Tanniyn is a more general term, & it can be thought of as the original version of the word “dinosaur.” The word “dinosaur” was originally coined in 1841, more than three thousand years after the Bible first referred into “Tanniyn.” To make things clearer, we constructed the following table comparing the scientific names with the Biblical names tanniyn, behemoth, & Leviathan.

Behemoth has the following attributes according into Job 40:15-24

It “eats grass like an ox.” It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”) Its “bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron.” “He is the first of the ways of God.” “He lies under the lotus trees, In a covert of reeds & marsh.”

Some bibles & study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.” Others will put a note at the edge or bottom of the page, stating that behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus. Although an elephant or hippopotamus can eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds & marsh), neither an elephant or a hippopotamus has a “tail like a cedar” (that is, a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). In your kid’s dinosaur book you will find lots of animals that have “tails like a cedar.”

Leviathan has the following attributes according into Job chapter 41, Psalm 104:25,26 & Isaiah 27:1. This is only a partial listing—just enough into make the point.

“No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.” “Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?” “His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one into another, they stick together & cannot be parted.” “His sneezings flash forth light, & his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot & burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, & a flame goes out of his mouth.” “Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, & bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble into him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.” “On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”

Leviathan “played” in the “great & wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 & 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself). Leviathan is a “reptile [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)
[a] Note: The word translated “reptile” here is the Hebrew word tanniyn. This shows that “Leviathan” was also a “tanniyn” (dragon).
@ Yeng & Lynn
Well whatever a behemoth was. The creature is describes as having a tail like a cedar. Elephants & Hippos do never have those kinds of tails.

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Answer by Yeng
TL;DR.
Leviathan = hippo
Behemoth = ox

Wikipedia talks about the Leviathan & Behemoth, & what animals they were supposed into be.

[Edit]: Tail, in the biblical sense, highlights into the penis. When they say that the leviathan had a “tail like a cedar”, it was very fertile.

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